NO BREAD SHEGER

There was much enthusiasm following the inauguration of the industrial scale bread factory


NO BREAD SHEGER

There was much enthusiasm following the inauguration of the industrial scale bread factory, Sheger, funded by MIDROC’s Horizon Plantations Plc. With a capacity of baking 1.6 million loaves of bread and distribution by using refurbished Anbessa Bus vehicles, it started work to much excitement. But several of its buses can be seen with a sign pointing out they have run out of bread these days. The buses themselves seem dustier and dustier.


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